Lord Bottoms

Lord Bottoms (died 1296) was a noble of the Kingdom of England.

Biography
Lord Bottoms was one of the vassals of King Edward the Longshanks who was upset about paying taxes for the wars in both the Kingdom of France and in Scotland, but King Edward appeased Bottoms and other nobles by granting them the right of prima noctae, which would allow for English nobles to take newly-married Scottish wives into their beds on the night of their marriage to "bless the wedding". This would outbreed the Scots and let the English lords take over the country. Bottoms took the wife of Thomas Morrison into his bed, so when William Wallace began a rebellion against the English later in 1296, the Scots headed to his castle to avenge his rape of the wife. The garrison of the castle was spared, but Morrison killed Bottoms with a mace to claim the right of her husband.